girls:
4.6k births since 1915
#2503 (56th percentile)
boys:
282.7k births since 1880
#132 (97th percentile)
overall:
287.3k births since 1880
#271 (97th percentile)
The name Evan is the #271 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 287,318 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #132 (97.1% percentile) for all time with 282,704 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,503 (56.2% percentile) for all time with 4,614 births since 1915.
Evan has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Evan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Evan reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 96.2% percentile (ranked #35) with 4,846 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 4,846 births per million (ranked 96.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Evan ranks #134 for boys (85.4% percentile) with 1,409 births per million, which is 29.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Evan reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #714) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 69 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Evan ranks #887 for girls (6.3% percentile) with 37 births per million, which is 53.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Evan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Evan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.9% confident that Evan is pronounced as EH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-vihn, at 13.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 V AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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